The owners of the New York Daily News have been engaging in “predatory practices” and have been “threatening the future of local news in New York City.” That’s according to a resolution passed in the City Council on Wednesday that condemned Alden...

A group of New York City employees and retirees has gone to court to block the Adams administration from moving hundreds of thousands of municipal workers into a self-funded health plan.  The petitioners claim that instituting the plan would...

FDNY paramedic Salih Abdur Rahman died Wednesday Oct. 29 just after finishing his shift at the FDNY’s training academy on Randall’s Island, the department announced Thursday evening. A Marine veteran, Abdur Rahman first joined the FDNY in 2002 and...

Uber and Lyft drivers working the five boroughs are being kicked off their apps without notice, without due process and without recourse, according to a recent survey of nearly 350 rideshare drivers who were deactivated from their platforms....

Even as builders across New York scramble to fill open jobs, one group is making quiet but steady inroads: women. Once nearly absent from the state’s construction sites and offices, women now make up about 9 percent of New York State’s...

Air traffic controllers missed their paychecks Tuesday because of the ongoing government shutdown, raising concerns that mounting financial stress could take a toll on the already understaffed employees who guide thousands of flights each...

Maria worked cleaning schools in Florida for $13 an hour. Every two weeks, she'd get a $900 paycheck from her employer, a contractor. Not much — but enough to cover rent in the house that she and her 11-year-old son share with five families, plus...

Some members of Congress are asking for their salaries to be withheld during the government shutdown, while federal workers last Friday missed their first full paycheck since many operations closed on Oct. 1. With no movement toward a deal to end...

Starting early mornings, Dominick Romeo emerges from his basement apartment on West 18th Street, and sweeps and hoses a section of sidewalk. Back inside, he straightens out the garbage area. Then it’s on to the building’s lobby, where he vacuums,...

A shutdown of Broadway theaters was averted last week when the union representing musicians in the theater district reached a deal on a tentative agreement for a new contract hours before the union had pledged to walk out on strike. Local 802 of...

With their contracts at a dozen private-sector hospitals across the city expiring at the end of the year, about 20,000 members of the New York State Nurses Association are demanding new agreements that would bring them higher wages but also...

Emergency call operators are being pushed to work 16-hour shifts three days in a row every week to compensate for “chronic understaffing.” That’s what Tabitha Sheppard, the president of a union representing police communication technicians in the...

New Jersey’s teacher workforce remained roughly level in the 2023-2024 school year, but retirements remained elevated above prepandemic levels, according to a Rutgers University report released last week. Though the number of teachers in New...

The federal government shutdown is quickly approaching the second longest on record with no end in sight. Some lawmakers are predicting it could become the longest, surpassing the 35 days from President Donald Trump's first term. The Trump...

With just three out of eight original proposals left in the running in the battle to operate a casino in New York City, Queens community members continue to express strong opposition to one in their borough. More than 250 residents, community...

Dozens of employees at the creator fundraising website Kickstarter have been on strike for more than two weeks, threatening the crowdfunding website’s ability to host the artists and creators that rely on it. The nearly 60 U.S-based unionized...

A coalition of current and retired New York City employees, union leaders and former elected officials is urging city Comptroller Brad Lander to reject the city’s agreement with two major insurance firms to administer health benefits for more than 750,000 active and retired municipal workers and their families....

A bill named after a fallen EMS officer that would have ensured that no EMS provider in New York City travels alone to the scene of an emergency was vetoed by Governor Kathy Hochul last week. The bill was passed by the State Senate and Assembly over the summer and would have closed a loophole allowing EMS workers in the city to be dispatched solo...

In what it called the labor movement’s “first principles” regarding the future of artificial intelligence, the AFL-CIO is calling for enforceable protections to ensure that AI strengthens — and doesn’t threaten — the livelihoods, rights and safety...

It's not often that a FDNY firefighter looks to depart the world of emergency response for City Hall, but that's exactly what Ben Chou, a firefighter based in Engine 298 in Queens, is hoping to do. The active firefighter won a Democratic Primary...

Vice President JD Vance has said there will be deeper cuts to the federal workforce the longer the government shutdown goes on, adding to the uncertainty facing hundreds of thousands who are already furloughed without pay amid the stubborn...

When Rob Coverdale started his job in 2023 as superintendent of the K-12 Crow Creek Tribal School in South Dakota, there were 15 unfilled teaching positions. Within nine months, he had filled those vacancies with Filipino teachers, the majority...

A former City Department of Correction employee has been indicted for allegedly concealing more than $135,000 in payments she received from associates and relatives of Rikers Island inmates and for filing a false state income tax return, Bronx...

Hundreds of former and current home-care workers and their allies rallied last week outside the state Division of Labor Standards in downtown Brooklyn to demand an end to the notorious 24-hour workday.  The notorious practice assigns...

 Two unions representing Broadway's actors, stage managers and musicians have authorized strikes that threaten to shut down most musicals and plays in the city’s theater district.  The executive board of Actors’ Equity Association’s...